School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cathair na Mart (roll number 12255)
- Location:
- Westport, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: An tSr. Bonaventure
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- (continued from previous page)buying some clothes for themselves.They travel round from house to house with a little decorated box and some of them carry a wren in a matchbox and they sing the wren a rhyme thus:
The wren, the wren
The kind of all birds
St. Stephen’s day was
Caught in a furze
Up with the kettle
And down with the pan:
Give us some money
To bury the wren
On New Year’s Day some people would not put a spade in the ground because they say that the crops would not grow. Some(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nancy Haran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Westport, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs. Eileen Haran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Westport, Co. Mayo